Application Development

The application development community features top thought leadership focusing on optimal practices in software development, SDLC methodology, mobile app development and application development platforms and tools. Join top software engineers and coders as they cover emerging trends in everything from enterprise app development to developing for mobile platforms such as Android and iOS.

Customer data is complicated. It lives everywhere and changes frequently. Creating a holistic view of the customer journey can be a challenge, even as the opportunities are obvious. Join Larry Drebes, Founder and CEO of Janrain for lessons learned from thousands of enterprises, challenges with different approaches to customer data management, and the benefits of managing customer identity in the cloud.

Mobile is taking over as the pre-eminent way companies connect with customers.

For sales. For service. For feedback. For support. For … everything.

In just 8 years, smartphones have taken over the world. In just 3.5 years, smartphone media consumption has overtaken television. In just 5 years, we have been talking on our phones the same amount, but our data usage has skyrocketed more than 3400%. Mobile commerce has jumped 123% just in the first quarter of this year. It's happening. It's happening right now.

We're taking a hard look at how mobile is the new normal. Your customers expect it. Business demands it. Mobile marketing automation is only used by 1.5% of businesses today -- and those businesses are making a killing because they understand the unique relationships we have grown to expect with our mobile devices.

In this webinar, you'll:

* Learn how psychology meets technology with mobile marketing automation
* Improve customer engagement and retention through marketing efforts
* Get a running start on using the mobile revolution to drive massive engagement

OpenShift Commons Briefings allow you to have access to trainings you might have missed on DevOps, operations and application development. Join this presentation for a deeper look into scheduling pods for high availability.

Traditional testing methods do not fit well for the DevOps world. They simply are not suited for the velocity or volume of changes required to achieve Continuous Delivery. With 70% of test cases written manually and almost 50% of SDLC costs taken up by testing, it is clear that more of the testing effort needs to be automated.

Like test case design, creating test data from scratch is labor intensive, costly and error prone. It rarely leads to the creation of realistic data fitted for the specific business purpose. As a result, testing is too slow and lets too many defects slip through, so that only a fraction of desired functionality is delivered, and the customer experience goes downhill in the end.

Join the discussion to explore:
- The various testing related constraints to Continuous Delivery
- How effective Test Case Design and Test Data Management methods and tools can help facilitate Agile Development and Continuous Delivery
- Testing best practices today and what the future of testing looks like

Join us for a live webinar on July 28th to learn about a new end-to-end initiative offered to selected SAP partners.

This initiative begins at the end of July, and will support SAP partners through the lifecycle from building to selling innovative applications for the Utilities industry, using SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
This is an invitation-only initiative, whose purpose is to rapidly enable you to build and monetize high-value apps which will complement SAP's Utilities industry solution portfolio.

Traditional testing methods do not fit well for the DevOps world. They simply are not suited for the velocity or volume of changes required to achieve Continuous Delivery. With 70% of test cases written manually and almost 50% of SDLC costs taken up by testing, it is clear that more of the testing effort needs to be automated.

Like test case design, creating test data from scratch is labor intensive, costly and error prone. It rarely leads to the creation of realistic data fitted for the specific business purpose. As a result, testing is too slow and lets too many defects slip through, so that only a fraction of desired functionality is delivered, and the customer experience goes downhill in the end.

Join the discussion to explore:
- The various testing related constraints to Continuous Delivery
- How effective Test Case Design and Test Data Management methods and tools can help facilitate Agile Development and Continuous Delivery
- Testing best practices today and what the future of testing looks like

This webinar will discuss strategies to help you save money in the AWS Cloud. From turning systems off at night, to implementing bidding strategies on the spot market, there are many ways in which you can manage and reduce your costs with AWS.

OpenShift Commons Briefings allow you to have access to trainings you might have missed on DevOps, operations and application development. Join this presentation to learn how to use OpenShift on OpenStack to deploy apps at rocket speed.

The new Microsoft Windows 10 platform is an exciting step forward from both a functionality and a security perspective. Senior Product Marketing Manager, Stephen Rose covers the new features of this operating system and what they mean to you as a way of adding additional security to your organization.

In the application economy, you have to deliver software as if your business depends on it … because it does! It’s a bold statement, but true. Think of nearly every interaction a person might have today—be it for work, commerce or play. Most have a digital dimension, which relies on digital technology and platforms.

In order to survive and grow, every company needs to become a technology company and every business needs to become a digital business. Successful transformation requires Continuous Delivery, the new business imperative that enables you to rapidly develop and deliver applications that drive superior user experiences and engage your customers and staff.

But the traditional “software factory” or process for transforming an idea into a customer experience is throttled by a number of bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline. That means delivering innovative, high-quality applications, faster and more frequently can be a chaotic and complex process, particularly if your application delivery systems and processes were designed to only push out one or two releases a year.

Hyperconverged technology is a term used to describe what some
vendors are calling 'infrastructure in a box' or 'all-in-one solution.' Virtualization and storage
administrators understand that it can make sense to couple virtualized
storage with a virtualized server instance in some cases to create a
virtualized infrastructure.
However, there are several issues to consider before plunging into a hyperconverged deployment.

This session will discuss the applications benefiting from a hyper converged solution and how it fits into your data center.

Git is the developer's tool of choice, but Git tools and workflows are also the best way for large software development shops to improve their quality and delivery pace. In this webinar 451 Research's Donnie Berkholz will touch on Git's popularity with developers and then explain in detail how Git tools and workflows are fundamental to continuous delivery. WANdisco's Randy DeFauw will then give a short take on how to make Git robust enough for the largest environments. After watching this webinar enterprise software managers and SCM administrators will realize that Git may be the best thing they were ever scared of.

Businesses everywhere are competing for customers and revenues by offering faster and richer mobile applications. Over 200 billion connections will drive information, data, analysis, insight, and transactions by the end of the decade. In fact, over 30% of distributed applications already have direct connections to the mainframe. Is your IT organization ready for this new Application Economy?

Join us for an informative webcast to learn how IT leaders are reconciling forces in the new era of the application with unified service level management for maximum visibility, streamlined issue diagnostics and significantly improved resolution times.

OpenShift Commons Briefings allow you to have access to trainings you might have missed on DevOps, operations and application development. Join this presentation to learn more about updated features for OpenShift V3.

Agile is becoming a mainstream development methodology in the industry. The Agile Manifesto is broadly accepted, but implementations vary quite often. Despite the sometimes fervent discussions about the real truth, there is a concrete need for organizations to transform to agile and find a working model for agile at scale. Peter Vollmer describes HP Software's journey to Enterprise Agile as a development organization but also as a vendor for agile software development tools. In this webinar you will learn about:

● Business drivers for Enterprise Agile
● How to start an enterprise agile transformation
● Challenges
● Major success factors
● Innovation as a managed process
● The role of Continuous Integration and Deployment

Join us to hear about HP Software’s journey to Enterprise Agile and discover how HP Agile Manager provides a valuable piece to an Agile infrastructure.

Joel Daly, Founder and EVP of Sales of HOSTING will discuss ways healthcare CIOs can leverage new business models to realize increased technology efficiencies, enable information-driven decisions and improve patient service. This session will draw upon real world case studies from Uber and the nation’s leading behavioral health organization to illustrate how healthcare CIOs can learn from other industry players to successfully meet today’s challenges including: management of data convergence, HIPAA compliance, mobile (BYOD) integration and securing protected health information (PHI) from sophisticated cyberattacks and breaches – all while meeting high patient expectations and adhering to best practices prescribed by the IHI Triple Aim.

SAP environments continue to increase in both size and complexity, spanning multi-platforms and cross-enterprise processes. To efficiently manage workloads within those environments, you need to remove the constraints that impact performance and business results. Success requires a smooth way to analyze your system environment and gather operational data from your application environments.

Reduce workload pressure. Join Roy Illsley, Principal Analyst Infrastructure Solutions at Ovum and Karthik Mahadevan, Sr. Principal Product Manager from CA Technologies as they examine how SAP Administrators can take advantage of automation tools. Find out how you can easily manage and monitor job scheduling for both SAP and non-SAP processes.

Container technology is evolving at a very rapid pace. The purpose of this session is to describe the current state of container technologies within the OpenStack Ecosystem. Specific topics we will cover include:
- How OpenStack vendors and operators are using containers to create efficiencies in deployment of the control plane services
- Approaches OpenStack consumers are taking to deploy container-based applications on OpenStack clouds (including a mid-cycle update on Magnum)
Register today and join us for this informative session!

Digital initiatives are very cross-functional by nature. Gaining and maintaining alignment on priorities can be quite difficult, particularly given the fast pace of retail and siloed nature of most retail organizations. Thus, the drive to achieve business benefits from digital initiatives can be elusive. In this webinar, we will discuss importance of governance and managing digital initiatives as a portfolio.

Attendees will learn:
•Leading practices for driving alignment on digital priorities
•How to ensure digital efforts meet changing business needs and lead to business benefits (both near-term and longer term).

This event qualifies for Project Management Institute (PMI) 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU).

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Selecting the right technology platform for developing and deploying your web applications is critical. Make the wrong choice and it can wreak havoc on your project schedule and budget. In this session, we’ll talk about key considerations in selecting your web technology platform.

About the Presenter:
Shikhir Singh is the Sr. Developer Relations Manager at Sencha. He specializes in enterprise mobility, cryptography and JavaScript technologies. Prior to joining Sencha, he worked at BlackBerry, Lockheed Martin, Sun Microsystems and a couple of startups.

Join us on August 11th to gain expert advice on enterprise application and mobile security. Here you will learn market dynamics, possible risks and effective solutions you can use while working within your budget.

IT spend has become one of the largest budget line items in companies today. IT organizations worldwide spent over $4 trillion dollars in 2013 alone. Despite the growth in IT spend, many IT organizations do not have the capability to clearly and easily articulate where that spend is going, how it correlates to the services they are delivering or what value the business is realizing from the services.

In order to stay competitive, businesses are seeking ways to optimize and align future IT investment decisions with the strategic direction of the company. By making all of the costs of running IT transparent, IT can change the way business units consume IT resources, drive down total enterprise IT costs and focus on IT spending that delivers real business value.

Join Jerry Wertelecky as he discusses:

• Facilitate collaboration between IT and Finance to increase visibility into the costs, utilization and operations of all IT Services

• Leverage a deep understanding of what drives IT costs and performance to improve scenario planning capabilities and make better IT decisions

• Provide IT cost and consumption data to business owners in the form of a “Bill of IT” to more effectively communicate the value of IT to the business.

Running Enterprise IT is probably more complicated now than it has ever been. Many organisations are embarking on transformation projects to take advantage of the modern hybrid world. But with all that complexity how do you make sure your transformation is a success? Join HP to take a look at some of the areas you need to be considering when transforming your environment to achieve the better service levels and efficiencies you are striving for. We’ll talk about everything from discovering interdependencies through automation and changing the way you manage your new environment.

The CIO is faced with reconciling the, apparently, irreconcilable. How does he build a cost effective technology platform that provides business agility, and manages risk?

In this session, Steve O’Donnell explains the critical success factors in achieving that desired outcome, the considered compromises, the strategies and tactical approaches that the CIO will need to adopt to deliver business benefits and keep his stakeholders onside. He will look at the different types of application and how they need to be managed and hosted. Where do we build, where do we buy and where is configuration the right answer? How do we choose between in-house infrastructure, managed cloud services and engineered systems?

Join Stephen for a structured approach to providing a cohesive strategy for IT investment that makes sense, and optimises business outcomes whilst being simple enough to gain business stakeholder buy in and approval.

Chef has an active community of smart, caring, practitioners who want to help you succeed with Chef. There are a number of ways for you to engage with, learn from, follow, and contribute, such as going to Meetups, listening to podcasts, taking some training, contributing code, and more.

In this webinar, Nathen Harvey, Chef Community Director, will cover many of the different pieces and ways to interact with the community.

From ecommerce platform selection to warehouse, order and product management systems, join ecommerce architect specialist Mike Bainbridge as he gives an overview of key software solutions for retailers.

In this presentation, we will delve into everything Docker. Starting with the different components in Docker, we will go into details of what are the value adds of using Docker in your enterprise (or company), and what are the most popular scenarios that companies that are jumping on the Docker bandwagon are using the platform for.

At the end of this presentation, you will leave with an understanding of what the different components of Docker are, where you can leverage it in your organization, and what might be the quickest wins you can achieve to get you there.

According to the FBI report in 2014, botnets have caused over $9 billion in losses to U.S. victims and over $110 billion in losses globally. Bots are rapidly proliferating globally at a rate of 18 machines per second. These bots are being used by organized crime to carry out website attacks such as credential stuffing attacks leading to large-scale account hijacking and widespread online fraud. Attend this webinar to learn about bots, botnets, and automated attack ecosystem from Shape’s Shuman Ghosemajumder, who is also the former head of product management for click fraud protection at Google.

Why you should attend:
- Learn about the evolving bot and botnet landscape
- Understand how bots are used to carry out website attacks and fraud
- Evaluate strategies to protect your website from bots

Replication is a key requirement for many enterprise Subversion deployments, but Subversion’s native replication techniques are limited to certain protocols and operations. This session will explain how to extend the Apache Subversion code to intercept all writes and enable better replication for large-scale deployments.

This demo-driven session will show you different ways to integrate Salesforce, including loading SAP customer master data into Salesforce, synchronizing real time updates, creating shared services and developing an agility layer with APIs.

Today’s banking customers are a demanding bunch. They expect mobility, transparency, instant access, and competitive products from their providers. In response, financial institutions are hard at work optimizing online and mobile banking. However, all too often, the solutions and apps they create fall short of the mark.

At the same time, technology advancements are making it easier than ever for small, agile fintech startups to quickly turn ideas into marketable products across multiple channels, including wearables.

To compete in the digital age, banks must deliver smart, friendly technology, and they must do it quickly. The best way to do this is to partner with the experts. Leading banks and fintech firms need one another to thrive, if not survive.

Join Yodlee Interactive for a webinar hosted by VentureBeat on August 20th at 10 a.m. PT, featuring panelists Josh Gordon-Blake, SVP of Global Partnerships at Pangea, Grant Karsas, VP of Customer and Member Success at HelloWallet, Dr. Richard M. Smith, Founder and CEO of TradeStops, and Elizabeth Gunderson, Senior Manager of Customer Success at Yodlee Interactive.

We’ll explore:
· What’s driving change in fintech
· How to prepare for the coming wave of wearable technology
· How to prepare for Generation Z
· Why collaboration is the path forward to create killer fintech applications

Don’t wait. Register now. And follow the discussion using #FintechApps on Twitter and other social media platforms.

We’ve all seen the cooking show where the chef is showing the host a new recipe, and then “voilá!” out of the oven pops a fully baked dish, without the wait time. When multiple teams can develop, deploy and test in parallel using exact, instant clones of the target deployment environment, it’s like having one of those magic time-warp ovens for baking software releases. Discover how you can easily integrate instant cloud-based environment provisioning directly within automated application deployment workflows, and get out of the business of messing with infrastructure recipes. Join us for this webcast and learn how combining Skytap EaaS with CA’s leading Release Automation solution, you can:
. Easily harness the complexity and volume of applications, tools and environments inherent in continuous delivery
• Eliminate bottlenecks at every phase of the SLDC for faster release velocity, from the early provisioning of development infrastructure, through system, integration and acceptance testing and into production.
• Use the CA Release Automation Action Pack for Skytap EaaS to provision/delete, copy, schedule, suspend and resume Skytap cloud environments on demand.
• Use Skytap’s “golden template” capability to stamp out specified infrastructure completely within the context of the automated deployment workflow, without requiring additional coding or waiting for scripts to run.

Test Kitchen makes it easy for you to test cookbooks on a variety of platforms. With Test Kitchen, you can quickly create test nodes, converge them, and then run tests against them to verify their state.

Join Chef engineer Fletcher Nichol as he explains how to use Test Kitchen to write and maintain Chef cookbooks with confidence. Fletcher will discuss:

- How to set up your workstation
- How to create a new Chef cookbook that runs on your target platform
- How to deal with new operating system and Chef client releases
- How to play in the world of Windows

Wondering how to manage stringent SLA demands for complex networks that span distributed and mainframe environments, while simultaneously reducing your IT budget? Discover how you can dramatically improve performance and availability of your entire network by proactively managing it from a single point of control. What’s more, you’ll find out how to significantly reduce costs with total savings that might surprise you.

See how customers are leveraging advance analytics and automation to predictably prevent network problems and resourcefully plan for future network needs.

Health plans push for their members to visit their primary care provider for a checkup. It improves health outcomes and reduces the medical spend from costs related to illness and disease. Like their members, health plans also need checkups that will identify the challenges to which they are increasingly exposed, such as issues around information security, revenue maximization, and staffing needs. In this webinar, we will discuss how to specifically deal with key issues related to each of these areas.